Alberta eyes downtown-to-airport trains as first key project of passenger rail plan

Alberta’s government is eyeing train connections for airports to the downtown cores of its two biggest cities as the first key project of the province’s new passenger rail plan.

But construction isn’t expected to start any time soon, as the government says it will spend $15 million over the next three years to advance planning efforts.

The province’s new passenger rail master plan was two years in the making.

Three decades from now it sees an Alberta with high-speed rail between Edmonton and Calgary, and trains connecting Calgary to the Rocky Mountains resort town of Banff.